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A Son’s Story of Sexual Abuse
With a new foreword by Richard B. Gartner and a preface by
the author
A timely account of child sexual abuse and recovery
To the outside world, Walter de Milly’s father was a prominent
businessman, a dignified Presbyterian, and a faithful husband; to
Walter, he was an overwhelming, handsome monster. This paperback
edition of
In My Father’s Arms: A True Story of Incest
adds a reflective
preface by the author and a foreword by Richard B. Gartner, author of
Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse.
“A sensitive and compelling account of father-son incest. In spite of
the suffering portrayed, the account also gives testimony to the
strength of family bonds, and to the courage and resilience of the
human spirit.”—Fred S. Berlin, M.D., Director of the National
Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma
“This is the most detailed and utterly plausible account I’ve ever read
of what it feels like to be an abused child, and it is told with cine-
matic presence and verisimilitude. The anger, the love, the evasive-
ness and jealousy and confusion, the need to dissociate oneself from
one’s own actions and reactions—all are presented in a harrowing
narrative, which is as tragic as a Greek drama and as engrossing as a
Victorian novel. The unexpected element in this book—which falls
on it like manna—is its nourishing, exquisite lyricism.”
—Edmund White, author of
A Boy’s Own Story
“In a calm and beautiful voice, de Milly takes us on a horrific adven-
ture, untwisting the wreckage of his youth. In the end, he stares down
his father’s soul with an honesty that heals his own. This book is
unforgettable.”—Annie Dillard, author of
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize
lives in Key West,
Florida. He has been a victim advocate at a
domestic abuse shelter, served on the board of
the national organization MaleSurvivor, and
worked with the UNESCO Committee on
the Rights of the Child.
Memoir / Gay Interest / Child Sexual Abuse
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
• SPRING 2012 •
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
April 2012
LC: 2011052832 HV
152 pp. 6 x 9
Paper $21.95 t
ISBN 978-0-299-16514-7
e-book $14.95 t
ISBN 978-0-299-16513-0
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David Bergman, Joan Larkin, and
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Of related interest
A Memoir
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“Klein enters his memories with a searing clarity steeped in tenderness, creating a fugue of
whispers—mysterious, sexy, irresistible.”—Eve Ensler, author of
The Vagina Monologues
Published October 2009
LC: 2003005650 HQ 152 pp. 5 x 8 1/2
ISBN 978-0-299-18874-0 Paper $16.95 t ISBN 978-0-299-18873-3 e-book $12.95 t
• 1999 hardcover, UWP
ISBN 978-0-299-16510-9
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